How to Join VMware ESXi 5.1 to Active Directory Domain

Updated on February 8, 2019

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It’s important to join your ESXi host to a Windows domain if there is one present in your architecture. By allowing AD to authenticate, you can simply delegate permissions based on your AD groups such as the Domain Admins’ group.

Steps to enable Active Directory authentication:

Log in to your ESXi hosts locally and click on Configuration.

On the left side of the dialog, select Authentication Services and then click Properties.